May 3, 2011

Nike Baltimore Elite Invitational starts Friday

The Nike Baltimore Elite basketball program will be home this weekend for its own AAU tournament.

The Nike Baltimore Elite Invitational Basketball Tournament is scheduled for May 6-8 at CCBC-Catonsville Annapolis Area Christian School and other Baltimore-area sites.

The tournament will feature six of the country's top 10 recruits from the 2012 class in power forward DaJuan Coleman of the Albany (N.Y.) City Rocks, center Kaleb Tarczewski and Duke-bound forward Alex Murphy of the New England Playaz, forward Amile Jefferson of Philly's Finest, Villanova center commitment Daniel Ochefu of Cuttino Mobley Philly Pride, and forward Kyle Anderson of the Playaz Basketball Club (N.J.) -- which won the 2011 NBE Invitational at Hoop Magic in Chantilly, Va.

Is Shaquille Cleare playing in this tournament? I may have missed his name in the above article?

I really hope that the Terps fans show up to this and are very positive towards all of the kids who are playing.(Even if they have committed elsewhere.) MD has a tremendous recruiting opportunity with the Houston Defenders. The coach is from the area, they are an Under Armour sponsored team, and at the very least very high level recruits (Cleare and the Harrison twins) are listing UMD as schools that they have are strongly considering.

TL: Good catch. Cleare will be here. I added his name to the list. Thanks. -- Matt

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About Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken was a lightly recruited football and tennis prospect out of East Lansing (Mich.) High School in 2001, but spurned all (nonexistent) scholarship offers to attend the University of Michigan. Matt graduated from UM in 2005, earned a master's degree in new media journalism from Northwestern University in 2006, and spent the first 11 months of his career as an online producer / videographer / blogger at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. He has worked at The Baltimore Sun since July 2007, where he currently serves as the deputy sports editor for digital.